"I was gratified to be able to..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.”

“An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.”

“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”

“Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.”

“Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.”

“A prince is also respected when he is a true friend and a true enemy; that is, when he declares himself on the side of one prince against another without any reservation.”

“There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.”

“We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.”

“All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.”